Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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116. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the Garda recruitment programme; the extent to which the numbers of the force have fluctuated in each of the past five years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36071/14]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy will be aware that the first intake since 2009 of 100 new recruits entered training at the Garda College in Templemore on Monday 15th September 2014. This marked a positive step forward for policing in Ireland. It is my intention that there will be ongoing recruitment and I am discussing the details of this with my colleague the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

The personnel strength of An Garda Síochána on 31 December of each of the last four years and as of 31 July 2014 was as follows:-